Geotribometamorphism in seismic zones of the Earth’s crust

Abstract

Geotribometamorphism means a process of destructive-constructive changes of the rocks in the seismotectonic zones in the Earth’s crust. Due to the friction between rock blocks and layers, kinetic energy is generated, which deforms and destroys the rocks until mylonitization and melting in an environment of high temperature and pressure. Subsequently, the disintegrated material recrystallized into new high-pressure rocks such as eclogites, garnet lherzolites, phengite and kyanite schists and calciphyres. These rocks mark paleoseismic zones and events that occurred during the Precambrian and Phanerozoic.